My holiday to China began early in the morning when my friend Tony picked me up from my home in Fareham. He took me to Gatwick Airport for an Air China flight to Beijing.

Travelling to China.

Luckily, people were already at the Air China check-in desk & I could check-in. I was soon in the 'Servisair' lounge, where I met my travelling companions & tour rep for the holiday. Everyone seemed very nice & after a bacon roll, several danish pastries & some orange juice I then forced myself to have a couple of beers.

We all walked around to the departure gate & boarded the plane in good time, only to be delayed for some unknown reason for about 40 minutes. After taking off, we were served lunch, which was actually quite nice for airline food. A big thumbs up to Air China. After watching a couple of films & then figuring out why I only had two films on my screen, I managed to get all the other channels working & settled in for the overnight flight to Beijing.

Air China.

Air China is the flagship airline of the People's Republic of China & one of the three mainland Chinese airlines, the others being China Southern Airlines & China Eastern Airlines.

Air China's headquarters are in Beijing & the flight operations are based primarily at Beijing Capital International Airport.